Re: More Webserver / IE Exploits

[Benjamin Franz <snowhare () nihongo org>]

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Hubbard, Dan wrote:

> We have discovered more than 300 websites that include malicious code
> that will attempt to run a program on your machine without end-user
> intervention. Similar to the recent Scob attack, a dual-pronged approach
> of exploiting vulnerable servers and clients is being used. 
>
> There is no commonality on the web server side with the exception of 164
> sites that are all hosted by the same hosting facility in Florida.
>
> Details on the hosting facility in Florida:
>
> The site that includes the exploit code is:
>
> http://www.karl-marx.ru/

[...]

I suspect this domain is a BlackHat server - period. We had a keylogger
trojan ("Padonok" - it WAS NOT detected by our any of our virus scanners,
malware detectors et al) hit one of our desktops more than a month ago.  
It tried to deliver the stolen data to that server. That they are *still*
in operation tells you that they are either unbelievably incompetent or
actually owned in the financial sense by the bad guys.

Here is what little I know about them:

http://spamwatch.codefish.net.au/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=93&mode=thread

That dates all the way back to March...

-- 
Benjamin Franz

Catapultam habeo. 

Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis ad capul tuum saxum immane mittam.

(Translation: "I have a catapult. Give me all the money or I will fling 
 an enormous rock at your head.")
                                        Henry Beard